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Japan's first Western-style repair dock, hauling ships up rails onto land; the brick slipway survives intact.
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The Kosuge Ship Repair Dock (小菅修船場跡, Kosuge shūsen-ba ato) is the remains of Japan's first western-style dock, erected in the Bakumatsu period in what is now the Kosuge neighborhood of the city of Nagasaki of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 2009. and was later designed as a component of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining, which received UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2015.
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Founded / opened：1869 Highlights / collection：World Heritage Site, Oldest Western-style dock in Japan, Hauling device called the soroban dock Genre：Architecture
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